'Syed Akbaruddin' - 128 News Result(s)

India has criticised the United Nations Security Council's veto-wielding members for anonymously obstructing the designation of terrorists without giving any reason, a veiled attack on China for repeatedly blocking its bid to list Pakistan-based Masood Azhar as a global terrorist.

Pakistan needs to change its "mindset" of differentiating between good and bad terrorists, India has told the UN Security Council, urging it to focus on challenges posed by terrorism emanating from the safe havens from across the border.

India has demanded transparency in the UN Security Council reform process so that the people could know what is preventing the members from translating discussions into a negotiating text for the much needed revamping of the world body's top organ.

India has asked the UN Security Council to use sanctions regime as a weapon against terror funding in Afghanistan and support the strengthening of the war-torn country's sovereignty and stability threatened by terrorist safe havens across the borders in Pakistan.

India has urged the UN Security Council to ensure that the first and foremost duty of international community is to ensure that the forces of terrorism and extremism do not find sanctuaries and safe havens anywhere and at any level.

Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj was unsparing in her attacks on Pakistan's Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi at the United Nations General Assembly on Saturday, mercilessly lampooning PM Abbasi's speech that had pointed fingers at India. But the Foreign Minister didn't miss the opportunity to take a thinly-veiled dig at China as well, the veto-wie...

US President Donald Trump, once a harsh critic of the United Nations Security Council, took a measured tone today and called for reforms in the body - a view India has taken for long. Addressing a meeting on UN reforms a day ahead of his address at the General Assembly, President Trump said he encouraged member states to strike out for change and n...

Taking a jibe at Pakistan, a top Indian diplomat has said Islamabad's decision to raise the Kashmir issue at the UN, which has not been discussed at the world body for decades, is like 'Miyan ki daud masjid tak'. India on the other hand is focused on progressive, forward looking agenda during the UN General Assembly session beginning tomorrow

India is expected to press for ban on Jaish-e Mohammad chief Masood Azhar at the 72nd United Nations General Assembly, indicated Syed Akbaruddin, India's ambassador to the UN. Last year, China had blocked India's efforts for a ban on the terror chief at the UN. But at the summit of BRICS - a block of emerging economies including Brazil, Russia, Ind...

India has asked the UN member states to find the source from where the "anti-government elements" in Afghanistan were getting weapons, training and funds to fight one of the biggest collective military forces in the world.

India has opposed introducing new categories for consideration in inter-governmental negotiations on expansion of the UNSC, saying it is "unacceptable" that "discarded" options on increasing the UN body's membership are being repackaged as new offerings.

Indian Ambassador to the UN, Syed Akbaruddin met his US counterpart Nikki Haley at the Permanent Mission of India tothe UN in New York yesterday and discussed ways to strengthen Indo-US partnership at the world body.

'Syed Akbaruddin' - 128 News Result(s)

India has criticised the United Nations Security Council's veto-wielding members for anonymously obstructing the designation of terrorists without giving any reason, a veiled attack on China for repeatedly blocking its bid to list Pakistan-based Masood Azhar as a global terrorist.

Pakistan needs to change its "mindset" of differentiating between good and bad terrorists, India has told the UN Security Council, urging it to focus on challenges posed by terrorism emanating from the safe havens from across the border.

India has demanded transparency in the UN Security Council reform process so that the people could know what is preventing the members from translating discussions into a negotiating text for the much needed revamping of the world body's top organ.

India has asked the UN Security Council to use sanctions regime as a weapon against terror funding in Afghanistan and support the strengthening of the war-torn country's sovereignty and stability threatened by terrorist safe havens across the borders in Pakistan.

India has urged the UN Security Council to ensure that the first and foremost duty of international community is to ensure that the forces of terrorism and extremism do not find sanctuaries and safe havens anywhere and at any level.

Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj was unsparing in her attacks on Pakistan's Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi at the United Nations General Assembly on Saturday, mercilessly lampooning PM Abbasi's speech that had pointed fingers at India. But the Foreign Minister didn't miss the opportunity to take a thinly-veiled dig at China as well, the veto-wie...

US President Donald Trump, once a harsh critic of the United Nations Security Council, took a measured tone today and called for reforms in the body - a view India has taken for long. Addressing a meeting on UN reforms a day ahead of his address at the General Assembly, President Trump said he encouraged member states to strike out for change and n...

Taking a jibe at Pakistan, a top Indian diplomat has said Islamabad's decision to raise the Kashmir issue at the UN, which has not been discussed at the world body for decades, is like 'Miyan ki daud masjid tak'. India on the other hand is focused on progressive, forward looking agenda during the UN General Assembly session beginning tomorrow

India is expected to press for ban on Jaish-e Mohammad chief Masood Azhar at the 72nd United Nations General Assembly, indicated Syed Akbaruddin, India's ambassador to the UN. Last year, China had blocked India's efforts for a ban on the terror chief at the UN. But at the summit of BRICS - a block of emerging economies including Brazil, Russia, Ind...

India has asked the UN member states to find the source from where the "anti-government elements" in Afghanistan were getting weapons, training and funds to fight one of the biggest collective military forces in the world.

India has opposed introducing new categories for consideration in inter-governmental negotiations on expansion of the UNSC, saying it is "unacceptable" that "discarded" options on increasing the UN body's membership are being repackaged as new offerings.

Indian Ambassador to the UN, Syed Akbaruddin met his US counterpart Nikki Haley at the Permanent Mission of India tothe UN in New York yesterday and discussed ways to strengthen Indo-US partnership at the world body.

To win permanent membership of the UN Security Council, India has offered to forgo veto power initially as a bargaining chip to get the reform process moving. "The issue of veto is important, but we should not allow it to have a veto over the process of Council reform itself," India's Permanent Representative at the UN, Syed Akbaruddin, said on Tue...

Indian Ambassador to the US Navtej Sarna paid floral tribute to the statue of Mahatma Gandhi in front of the embassy and unfurled the national flag in the presence of large number of Indian-Americans to celebrate the 68th Republic Day in Washington DC

Paying tributes to Cuba's late leader Fidel Castro, India said Cubans under him have achieved notable success in areas like education and health despite "outside pressures" and Havana's "significant voice" for the cause of the Global South brought the two countriestogether.

In a clear reference to Pakistan providing safe havens to terror groups, India has told the UN that the international community needs to urgently address the backing outfits like the Haqqani Network, Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammad draw from their "shadowy supporters" outside Afghanistan.

Pressing for international action against terror groups Lashkar-e-Taiba, Jaish-e-Mohammed and "their shadowy supporters", India today delivered a sharp message to Pakistan at the UN, saying "what you sow will bear fruit."

UN Secretary General-designate Antonio Guterres has voiced appreciation for India's engagement with the world body and its contributions to various areas of the UN's work during a meeting with Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar.

India continued its winning streak in the crucial UN elections, with another official unanimously elected to a key advisory panel that helps examine the world body's budget and management initiatives, a day after an Indian lawyer won membership of the International Law Commission.

In a significant victory, a young Indian lawyer won a hotly-contested election in the UN General Assembly for membership to the world body's top body of legal experts, garnering the highest number of votes in the Asia-Pacific group.

India has strongly criticised an "unresponsive" Security Council for being indecisive on sanctioning leaders of organisations it itself designates as terrorist entities after China extended its "technical hold" on India's bid for a United Nations ban against Jaish-e-Mohammed chief Masood Azhar.

As Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif spoke of Kashmir and eulogized terrorist Burhan Wani to a domestic audience, India made a scathing statement today at the United Nations, describing the neighbouring country's approach as an "anachronistic" one that is past its "sell-by date".